Education:
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: “Justice in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas: Rediscovering Civic Virtue.”
M.T.S., University of Notre Dame
B.A. in Theology, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN

Areas of Academic Interest:

Catholic Moral Theology, Virtue Ethics, Social Ethics, Catholic Social Thought, Political Theology

Publications:

“A New Heaven and a New Earth: Creation in the New Testament” in Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment, (Edited by Tobias Winright, Winona: Anselm Academic, 2011),  pp. 93-111.

Presentations:

“Impassioned Reasoning: Passions and Prudence in Moral Reasoning.”  New Wine, New Wineskins, University of Notre Dame, July 2011.

“Rediscovering Civic Virtue: The Philosophical and Political Realism of St. Thomas Aquinas.”  Realism in Christian Public Theology: Catholic and Protestant Perspectives, Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy, University of St. Thomas Law School, November 2009.

Professional Associations:

Society of Christian Ethics

American Academy of Religion

College Theology Society

New Wine, New Wineskins